Amy Longsdorf

entertainment writer

Amy Longsdorf is a freelance writer who got hooked on movies after catching "The Godfather" on the big screen. She is a weekly contributor to The Mercury's Sunday Living Section writing entertainment features and DVD reviews. She graduated from Cedar Crest College in Allentown with a degree in communications and has written for People Magazine, The New york Daily News, The Toronto Star, Philadelphia Weekly and The Camden Courier Post. She contributed to "Videohound's Groovy Movies:Far Out Films of the Psychedelic Era."

Recent articles

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With “The Water Diviner” (2015, Warner, R, $30), first-time director Russell Crowe tells the story of an Aussie farmer named Joshua (Crowe) who sets off on a mission to find his three sons, last seen fighting against the Turks in World War I’s bloody Battle of Gallipoli.

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In “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation,” Rebecca Ferguson kills men with her bare legs. She participates in underwater sequences. And she rappels 100 feet from the roof of the Vienna Opera House with her legs wrapped around co-star Tom Cruise.

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After working a dozen years at MTV and then another decade at Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, Macungie, Pa. native Heather Parry has acquired many skills which make her a successful movie producer.

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A Grand Jury Prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival, the spare, beautifully photographed “Slow West” (2015, Lionsgate, R, $20) sends a lovestruck teenager (Kodi Smit-McPhee) on a mission across the American frontier to reclaim his lost love (Caren Pistorius.)

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A letter from John Lennon lights a fire under an aging pop star (Al Pacino) who’s grown weary of life on the road. Inspired by the decades-old missive, Danny Collins decamps to the Hilton in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. where he sparks with the hotel’s manager (Annette Bening) while on a mission to reconnect with his son (Bobby Cannavale) and daughter-in-law (Jennifer Garner). In “Danny Collins” (2015, Universal, R, $30), the actors are a cinematic dream team, with...